In the evening of Sunday, June 1, 2025 we will be upgrading the MariaDB (MySQL) database server on our Tonks server from MariaDB 10.5 to MariaDB 10.6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Websites utilizing MariaDB\/MySQL databases will be temporarily unavailable for approximately 10-15 minutes until the upgrade is complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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